Analyzing Crime Patterns : Frontiers of Practice

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ISBN: 9780761919407 | 0761919406
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/18/1999

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This volume shows how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), used to display patterns of crime to stimulate effective strategies and decision-making, are revolutionizing urban law enforcement. The contributors present expert information for understanding and successfully employing the latest technologies in this field.

Foreword

vii

Nancy G. La Vigne

Acknowledgments

viii

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Operational Imperatives and Intellectual Cautionary Tales

(2)

Using a Geographic Information System for Tactical Crime Analysis

(8)

Philip Canter

The New York Police Department COMPSTAT Process: Mapping for Analysis, Evaluation, and Accountability

(12)

Philip G. McGuire

Filters, Fears, and Photos: Speculations and Explorations in the Geography of Crime

(10)

Keith Harries

The Spatial Analysis of Crime: What Social Scientists Have Learned

(14)

Charles Swartz

PART II. ANALYZING CRIME HOT SPOTS IN NEW YORK

(58)

Finding Crime Hot Spots Through Repeat Address Mapping

(16)

John E. Eck

Jeffrey S. Gersh

Charlene Taylor

Exploratory Data Analysis of Crime Patterns: Preliminary Findings From the Bronx

(12)

Sanjay Chakravorty

William V. Pelfrey

Identifying Crime Hot Spots Using Kernel Smoothing

(10)

Sara McLafferty

Doug Williamson

Philip G. McGuire

The Utility of Standard Deviation Ellipses for Evaluating Hot Spots

(18)

Robert H. Langworthy

Eric S. Jefferis

PART III. CRIME AND FACILITIES

105

(62)

Crime, Space, and Place: An Analysis of Crime Patterns in Brooklyn

107

(14)

Thomas Kamber

John H. Mollenkopf

Timothy A. Ross

Crime in Public Housing: Two-Way Diffusion Effects in Surrounding Neighborhoods

121

(16)

Jeffrey Fagan

Garth Davies

The Bronx and Chicago: Street Robbery in the Environs of Rapid Transit Stations

137

(16)

Richard Block

Carolyn Rebecca Block

Schools and Crime

153

(14)

Dennis W. Roncek

PART IV. TOOLS FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS

167

(12)

Evaluating Statistical Software for Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends

169

(10)

Doug Williamson

Timothy A. Ross

Sara McLafferty

Victor Goldsmith

Index

179

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